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See also:STARK, See also:JOHN (1728-1822) , See also:American soldier, was See also:born at Nutfield, now See also:Londonderry., New See also:Hampshire, on the 28th of See also:August 1728. In 1752 he was taken prisoner by the See also:Indians but was ransomed by See also:Massachusetts. During the Seven Years' See also:War he served under See also:Robert See also:Rogers, first as a See also:lieutenant and later as a See also:captain, taking See also:part in the See also:battle of See also:Lake See also:George in 1755, the disastrous attack upon See also:Ticonderoga in 1758, and the Ticonderoga-See also:Crown Point See also:campaign in 1759. At the beginning of the War of See also:Independence he raised a See also:regiment and as See also:colonel did See also:good service in the Battle of Bunker See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
Hill, in the See also:Canadian expedition, and in See also:Washington's New See also:Jersey campaign in the See also:winter of 1776-77. In See also:March 1777 he resigned his See also:commission because other See also:officers had been promoted over hirn: Later in the See also:year, however, he was placed in, command (by New Hampshire), with the See also:rank of brigadier-See also:general of See also:militia, of a force of militiamen, with whom, on the 16th of August, near See also:Bennington (q.v.), See also:Vermont, he defeated two detachments of See also:Burgoyne's See also:army under Colonel See also:Friedrich Baum and Colonel Breyman. For this victory, which did much to bring about the See also:capitulation of General Burgoyne, Stark received the thanks of See also:Congress and a commission as brigadier-general in the See also:Continental Army (Oct. 4, 1777). He took part in the operations about See also:Saratoga, and for a See also:short See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time in 1778 and again in 1781 he was See also:commander of the See also:northern See also:department. In See also:September 1783 he was breveted See also:major-general. He died at See also:Manchester, New Hampshire, on the 8th of May 1822. John Stark's See also:brother, See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William (1724-1776), served in the Seven Years' War and afterwards on the frontier; and at the outbreak of the War of Independence, piqued because he was not put in command of a regiment, he entered the See also:British service.
See Memoir and See also:Official See also:Correspondence of General John Stark (See also:Concord, N.H., 186o) by his See also:grandson See also:Caleb Stark (1804-1864), who wrote in 1831 Reminiscences of the See also:French War containing Rogers's Expeditions with the New See also:England Rangers and an See also:Account . . . of John Stark.
End of Article: STARK, JOHN (1728-1822)
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